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To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price. One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy. Beau. & Fl.

To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.

To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7.

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

Overshadowing. [R.]

To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To shine over or upon; to illumine. Shak.

A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South.

From Overshoot, v. t. Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its we'ght.

An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker.

To cover with viscid matter. [R.] O'ersized with coagulate gore. Shak.

To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference. Shak.

An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.

A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.

To slide over or by.

To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

An outer garment, or slop. [Obs.] Chaucer.